Re: Unnecessary HD formatting

From: Curious (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/28/04


Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:35:55 -0700

Actually "none", if you read the post, I asked
questions. Quoting directly... "Is that really
necessary in most cases? Wouldn't restoring the HD from
a full backup replace the need to reformat the HD and
reinstall the OS?"

Read buddy !
>-----Original Message-----
>You know what is worse, those you write a bunch of crap
and never ask a
>question.
>
>
>
>"Curious" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:13d9301c44458$dd8e2e30$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> I browse the newsgroups to try and learn from the MVPs.
>> The advice is worth its weight in gold.
>>
>> I am amazed at how many people have the same problems.
>> Viruses...spyware...no firewall..."self-inflicted"
>> registry problems...losing the MS product key...
>> They seem to know nothing about their computer but they
>> know enough to post to a newsgroup? It makes no sense.
>>
>> I am also agast at how many people feel the need to
>> reformat their HD. Is that really necessary in most
>> cases? Wouldn't restoring the HD from a full backup
>> replace the need to reformat the HD and reinstall the
>> OS? Backing up data is a basic computer maintenance
just
>> like running anti-virus software and Spyware removal.
Do
>> that many people have their head in the sand. Must
be!!
>>
>> BTW, the computer I got from my friend had an illegal
>> copy of Win XP Pro on it and he didn't give me the
>> product key. Is there any web site I can download a
>> product key for free? Also, my computer is telling me
>> I'm missing the file "bridge.dll". How do I get it
back?
>>
>> Kidding!
>
>
>.
>



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Unnecessary HD formatting
    ... There are times when reformatting is preferred over restoring from a backup. ... I keep a couple of ghost backups but as my Windows installation is over 2 ... Well that's are a couple of reasons to reformat and as has been said what ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Change Windows 2003 Server Product Key
    ... id key in the activate windows by phone, i get bad product key and will ... Is there any why to change the number with out having to reformat? ... If this was my server then I would first create & test a full backup. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: Backup best practices...
    ... Worst case scenario for each of my customers ... if the server were to sit off for a week: They would use their offline files ... from the backup remote pop3 accounts (that we keep for when COX or SBC ... Try restoring to a new hard drive. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Hard Disk Backup Question
    ... I would like to Back up the entire hard drive to a partition on the ... auto backup routine would work, but the computer may not be on when the ... convenience of restoring a single lost file and that of restoring ... whole disk image, with some sort of daily/weekly update to it. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: rman
    ... RMAN configuration parameters are: ... CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; ... channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring controlfile ...
    (comp.databases.oracle.server)